Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle

Laurent-Anastay Ponsolle leads two lives: during the day, this young French takes care of the strategic planning in a Parisian design agency. During the evening, the erotism of carnal embraces nourishes his work of painter-artist and talented draftsman. Born in 1982, he graduated from CELSA (School of Communication) In 2012, Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle is a self-taught artist.

He works with oil paint, acrylics and pastels on his large format canvases, or with charcoal, lavis and marker on paper. His slim female bodies, sometimes dressed with dark bottoms and his saturated palette of blacks, reds and blues are reminiscent of the erotic drawings of Gustav Klimt and of the cabaret dancers of Toulouse-Lautrec.

His approach focuses on the body, in what it can express what it feels or what it does not say. The simplicity and the power of his line give his models' bodies an authority that tries to express a deep, unspoken truth. Two of his collections give tribute to artists who have known how to make the best of their time: the collection "Fleurs du Mal" of Baudelaire or "hunger" which is an explicit tribute to the writer Georges Bataille, thinker of evil methaphysics.
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle has declared he wants his paintings to resemble photographs, he puts special focus on the details, the pose, to bring to life his composition, to make it expressive, to make it talk.

The young artist exhibited in Paris Affordable Art Fair in 2015 as well as at the Gallery DoubleS in Paris.